District Assessment Imagine having a job that pays a lot of money‚ but give it all away for love. Jimmy valentine was a criminal and was sentenced to four years in prison‚ but got out on good behavior in four months. He was very good at robbing banks and could almost crack any safe‚ but he got tired of this life and moved to Elmore to start a new life.Jimmy Valentine wanted to change his morals by becoming more respectful‚ he tried to be honest to everyone‚ and tried to be more compassionate. Jimmy
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Valentine held tried to hold the wheel steadily‚ despite his shaking hands. They dripped with sweat beneath his sticky leather gloves. He used to never mind the warmth and humidity of the steam as it wafted past his nose‚ but today it choked him‚ as if he was trying to breath fresh air but only the dreaded heat of many engines filled his lungs. The sky seemed filled with such a wet haze‚ perhaps created by the many airships that filled the sky. Valentine has never seen so many ships in one place
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Rossetti‚ Christina Rossetti‚ and Algernon Charles Swinburne. None‚ however‚ produced as many‚ or as striking‚ dramatic monologues as Robert Browning. A famous example is Browning’s “My Last Duchess.“ Notice how the Duke’s character is revealed by what he says: “MY LAST DUCHESS” That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall‚ Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder‚ now: Fra Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day‚ and there she stands. Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
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A Birthday - Christina Rossetti Context Christina Rossetti - Born in 1830‚ known for acerbic (sharp direct and outspoken) love poetry‚ vivacious (attractively lively) ballads (poem in short stanzas) and nursery rhymes. Became a devout Anglo-Catholic when she was about 14. Poem - Written when Rossetti was 27yrs old in 1857 and expresses the tremendous joy and excitement you feel when you meet the one you love. Title - A Birthday; celebration‚ spiritual rebirth‚ ambiguous misleading title
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Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic‚ devotional‚ and children’s poems. Christina Rossetti’s poem creation began in her childhood‚ she with its peculiar women sensitive and delicate as well as to the religious piety‚ create graceful‚ delicate feeling and rich and mysterious religious poetry. Christina is a devout Catholic Britain believers‚ religious belief is the kernel of her life‚ also because of this‚ Christina Rossetti’s
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Jimmy Valentine should be arrested. He has done a lot of bad stuff he hasn’t been punished for all the bad things he’s done. Like the three banks he robbed‚ he always cheated his way out of jail time‚ and Jimmy lied to everyone. He has some bad things‚ so he should be arrested and put back in jail. The first reason Jimmy Valentine should be arrested is that he did rob three banks after he got out of jail. In the first week‚ he robbed a bank in Richmond‚ then he robbed a bank in Logansport
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Browning‚ coming from the Duke of Ferrara. In the poem he displays his megalomaniac tendencies towards his late wife and how he feels his title symbolises his power over her. We also learn how he doesn’t want his wife for love but to be able to exhibit her and ’show her off’ and enforce psychological power over. The Duke calls her "My Last Duchess"; here the use of the possessive pronoun indicates to the reader how he feels his wife belongs to him. This implies that the Duke has an authoritative and
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A Retrieved Reformation Jimmy Valentine was a new man. Jimmy Valentine was a safe cracker who turned his life around after he met the girl of his dreams. He was caught safe cracking in the early days of his career and sent to jail. After he met the girl of his dreams he stopped safe cracking and went straight. before‚ he was a man of not so good morals that stole from others‚ but the following pieces of evidence show he was trying to be a moral person later on in the story‚ he became more courageous
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Christina Rossetti’s ‘Song’: Death and grief. Love and tragic loss are key themes of the Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature movement‚ and ‘Song’ combines the two beautifully in a way that neither glorifies nor portrays a detrimental idea of death and the outcomes it brings. Rossetti uses a variety of natural imagery to beautify the idea of life. She tells the reader to ‘plant no roses at my head’ where the symbol of the ‘rose’ embodies the theme of love‚ which was key in such a Romantic Era
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It was precisely during her adolescence that she found herself obliged to undergo several difficulties‚ namely her father’s and her own illnesses. Her father becoming virtually invalid‚ the Rossetti family suffered from an economic downturn. Frances resumed her governor post‚ and both Maria and William began employment too. Christina remained at home looking after her convalescent progenitor‚ while Dante continued consecrated to his artistic creations. Such events played a decisive role since she
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